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When we were young, I used to threaten my older sister with the thought of me being the uncle to her children.

Well, things have changed since then, and I’m proud to say that this morning, I became an uncle for the first time.

Joshua Hinton Suggs, born 09:18 2004-06-17, 7lbs 8oz.

Uncle Chris, indeed.

I live in Arlington, Virginia (USA), which is a pretty nice suburb of Washington, DC. I’d always wondered how they kept the county going with all of the services they provide, knowing how costly running a county is.

Well, now I know.

Apparently, Arlington County tricks unsuspecting motorists into paying an extra quarter for each hour. Suckers!

It’s funny… I’ve only found these parking meters on parts of Wilson Boulevard, near Whitlow’s on Wilson. The rest of the parking meters appear to be less shady.

Update 2004-05-26: I just thought I’d mention that my wonderful wife, Katrina (who keeps track of everything for me, including my social schedule, overly vast computer hardware collection, and fashion tips), often joins me for half-price burgers on Monday nights at Whitlow’s on Wilson.

So, it seems like everybody and their brother has a Weblog these days.

I used to think that people that blogged were either full of themselves or actually hadsomething important to say. Most bloggers fell into the category of "who cares".

Now, I understand that blogging is the new way&trade of the web. I mean, you can hardly get a decent position on Google[1] without being mobbed-up in the blogging scene. It’s a friggin’ pyramid schema, I tell you. What’s the first thing everybody does? They get several of their friends interested in blogging, and they all link to each other’s sites. Then, anyone who reads any of their blogs pretty much gets sucked into the whole ring of blogs.

Well, anyway, in an effort to avoid becoming obselete in these heady days of blogs on the intarweb, I have decided to jump in with both feet. I hope you enjoy reading the mindless drivel that I write.

I’ll hit a lot of random topics, but you’ll find that I often return to many of the same things: software development, Java stuff, Politics, and things that generally piss me off. Not coincidentally, these topics usually overlap.

Enjoy,

-chris

References

1. Friggin’ Brian Vargas’s explosive ammo mutator page is rated higher than my
   explosive ammo mutator page. Help me change that, will you? ;)